Category Archives: Front News

Cincinnati, OH (June 30, 2016)— After a twenty-year hippo hiatus, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is three weeks away from opening Hippo Cove, a newly-constructed exhibit that features a 70,000-gallon pool and an underwater viewing area where visitors can get nose-to-nostril with the Zoo’s two hippos.

Henry, a 34-year-old male hippopotamus from Dickerson Park Zoo, and Bibi, a 17-year-old female from St. Louis Zoo, have arrived…

On behalf of everybody involved with the Cincinnati Zoo I want to thank our local community for the caring concern you have shown since the tragic death of Harambe.

In this ever-connected, social media age, it seems that everybody, everywhere learned of our tragedy on the day it happened. This opened up a typhoon of international criticism and finger pointing the likes of which I had never experienced before.

CINCINNATI(June 2, 2016) – Over 43 million people have safely enjoyed the Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit without incident in the 38 years that it’s been open. That changed last Saturday when a young boy climbed over the public barrier, made his way through more than five feet of bushes and dropped…

CINCINNATI (June 1, 2016) – Since the tragic death of Harambe last Saturday, thousands of people have asked how they can help gorillas in the wild. As a result, the Cincinnati Zoo is redoubling its efforts to support gorilla conservation and encouraging others to join us.

CINCINNATI (May 29, 2016) –The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden family is in mourning today and trying to process the death of 17-year-old gorilla Harambe. The gorilla was killed yesterday in order to save the life of a child who climbed through a public barrier at Gorilla World and dropped fifteen feet into the exhibit’s moat,…

CINCINNATI, OH (May 28, 2016) – A 4-year-old boy climbed through a public barrier at Gorilla World at around 4pm today at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and fell into the exhibit’s moat. The two female gorillas in the exhibit were recalled immediately, but the third, a male, remained in the yard with…

CINCINNATI (May 25, 2016) – For the fourth year in a row, staff and volunteers from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden released federally endangered American burying beetles (ABB) at the Fernald Preserve. This year, 110 pairs that were carefully matched by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)…

Cincinnati, OH (May 20, 2016)— The pool is now full in the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s new Hippo Cove exhibit, but that doesn’t make it hippo ready! Before the Zoo’s new hippo pair take their first plunge in the water, most of which comes from stormwater tanks under the lion exhibit, it has to be just right.